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    Bta help

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    If you bought it and it looked pale already. Chances are it was already dying to begin with. The whiter it gets, the less likely it’s gonna make it- whether or not you feed it. Since the symbiotic algae within its tissue that it needs for energy is entirely gone


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    Looks like this. Really seems to be eating its tentacles. Maybe i trying feeding it every alt day20191103_201219.jpeg

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    Bta help

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    besides high nitrates, what are ur other parameters? KH calcium phosphate? u can try a very small piece scallop see if it would take. seems bleached out. the tentacle count got drop? my one last time also like tat, it eats its own tentacle until almost “botak”. read somewhere its eating own tentacle for sustaining.


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    Ammonia near 0. Kh normally 8 to 10. Never really tested the others as im using jirehs additives. Not sure about phosphates also. What kind of scallop do you feed it. Those cooked frozen ones and how do you feed it?

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    Bta help

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    My suggestion is to transfer it into a float bowl or fish trap box and nurse it back to health.
    I had a similar situation and it floated into my wave maker when I was at work. It killed itself in the wm and my tank was cloudy and had a smell.
    I had a hard time with the massive water change after that. Luckily no casualty with the other livestock in the DT.

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    I switched off the wavemaker already as it didnt like the flow and always squeezes behind the rocks. Now that it shifted out, looks terrible. I don't have any suction for the anemone to commit suicide. Not sure how to nurse it back to health, i feed it rotifiers and phytoplankton 2 to 3 times a week. Do i need to feed meaty food and where do I get them? The shopkeeper told me not to feed market prawns.

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    Nitrates

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    White spot will drop off after a few days. Try observe 1 or 2 more weeks before u put back to main tank.

    If BT show no sign of sickness then don't need to treat it anymore. Just feed more nutrition food to boost the immunity. Give this little guy a small pcs of seaweed daily.
    I read online that flakes might make them like this also. Giving it lesser in case it bloats its stomach

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    Nitrates

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    btw, your tang maybe having swim bladder issue. Do treat it asap.
    I put the tang in a small tank and put some medications cos it has a little white spots also. Might just be sand as it was always lying on the sand bed but just in case. Nw like no more white spots after i took it out.

    Dosing praziquentel mainly. But also acriflavine, malachite green and formaldehyde.

    Its nw balancing but nt swimming upwards. Still feeding though. Might put it back after another 4 days as thrs a bigger volume of water in the main tank.1572563835935~2.jpeg

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    Nitrates

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    Erm I will suggest you buy a Salifert NO3 test kit to test and see if the result is the same or not.

    If yes, try to do 30% water change every 2 days for 3 times.

    At the end, if your NO3 still raise up very fast then u need to consider reduce your livestocks or do carbon dosing.

    Btw do you have alot of bio media? If you don't have enough, your anaerobic bacteria also no place to grow.


    Ok. My tank back has a mid section full of those coral chips and volcanic rocks or something with 1 white, black filter sponge, 1 bag of amophos and 1 bag of activated carbon.

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    Nitrates

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    What’s your system’s total volume? If your tank is pretty large, small 20% water changes aren’t gonna do much at all, even if you do multiple. The massive water vol will just nullify the wc. Needs bigger % changes upwards of 50 if you really wanna see a dent.
     
    Try carbon dosing
     
     
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    Probably about 70 litres. Normally i change about 12 litres of water but dont make much difference.

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    Nitrates

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    Livestocks will be the main contributor especially if you have tangs.

    I do carbon dosing and refigum but no matter how hard I try I just can't get my NO3 below 15ppm. Always stuck at 30ppm.

    After your water change did you do a test few hours later to see how much NO3 is reduce?


    I put my tang in a quarantine tank nw as it always swims sideways and cant balance itself. Just got it like 1 week ago i think. Was lying on the sand bed then i took it out on case the cbs eats it. Anw its still really small.

    The test kit always shows red. So should be about 50ppm.

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    Nitrates

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    You need to identify the reason of high nitrate.

    Livestock overloaded?
    Feed too much?
    Got use Vitamin supplement?

    Try feeding less but increase feeding frequency and see how.
    I do have quite a lot of livestock in the tank but i don't think that would be the reason why the nitrates doesn't drop.

    I feed once a day. But sometimes i will throw just enough so the cbs is able to take some of the pellets. Else it will start attacking fishes. Sometimes i will take some roasted sea weed and put small pieces piece by piece to let fishes eat.

    I do have very fine grain live sand and rock. The wavemaker and fishes sometimes stir the sand a little.

    Running a protein skimmer. Water inside is always green nowadays

    Chemical filters using jireh amophos and activated carbon.

    Also using jirehs additives.

    So nt really sure what is the problem.
    So far made 2 water changes over 3 days. Still at 50ppm for nitrates. Thinking of using a small hangover refugium with chaeto to control it.

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